There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, but did you know that that the good old British Broadcasting Corporation has made more than 33,000 of its FX available ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Initially opened in 2018, the BBC Sound Effects Archive is a remarkable and vast resource, incorporating recordings which originated as far back as the 1920s. Recently, the archive has doubled in size ...

The internet is now a bit more noisy. That's because audio files on social media have rediscovered an amazing fact. The BBC's vast sound effects library is open to the public. Thousands of clips can ...